Reply To: Mercury Mark 55E

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Thanks for reply Dave. unfortunately don’t know what you mean by “did you do the water pump before you ran it”. As I said, just purchased and this was the first time in the water. Seller “assured” us that the motor was just overhauled and good to go. It did start after a bit of a wait but soon failed again after almost making to the boat ramp. Hmmm, perhaps it did overheat. Seller did show us what to me looked like a rubber impellor of some kind that he had replaced. Not sure why he brought that up but as part of that conversation he pointed to where we should see a spurt of water coming out. He called it “pissing”. “watch for that” We did and it seemed to be “pissing”. Sorry bout that. Where do we go from here? I’m not afraid of a mechanical challenge. Never worked on one of these though. Do we need to rig a test tank to do anything? My only outboard project has been a small Honda 4 cycle.